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Improving TCP Performance in High Speed Networks

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Overview The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) [POS81] is a key transport protocol in the Internet. Two phases can be distinguished in a TCP connection, called Slow-Start and Congestion Avoidance [RFC2001]. In high speed networks, Standard TCP experiences performance problems in both phases. In high speed networks, the standard Slow-Start algorithm may cause thousands of packets drops in one Round Trip Time (RTT) that would strongly affects the overall TCP performance and the standard Congestion Avoidance algorithm may require too many RTTs to correctly probe the available link bandwidth. In this paper, these TCP problems are described in detail and two possible solutions - Limited Slow-Start and HighSpeed TCP - are presented.

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Publisher	University of Helsinki	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2004
Format	White Papers
Topics	TCP - IP

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